A diagnostic command for basemind, a tool that indexes code so an assistant can search it. It checks the index and lock state, rebuilds the index when needed, and explains how to reconnect the client.

Checking basemind status, finding lock problems, rebuilding the code index, and diagnosing connection issues.

It helps recover from missing search results, a missing index, tool errors, or a basemind server that is no longer responding.

bm-doctor — Command for Claude Code by Goldziher/basemind

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Goldziher/basemind

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install basemind, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 11 commands, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/goldziher/basemind/bm-doctor/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/goldziher/basemind/bm-doctor)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/goldziher/basemind/bm-doctor"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/goldziher/basemind/bm-doctor/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 45 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 445 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00045	$0.00445
Opus 5.5	$0.00018	$0.00178
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00009	$0.00089
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00044

Measured 6d ago against content hash 66873d6659bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bm-doctor scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

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What it actually says

bm-doctor — diagnose and recover basemind

Diagnose and recover basemind using the CLI (works even with no MCP server running).

When to use

basemind isn't behaving: MCP tools are missing or erroring, the statusline or a tool reports "no index" / "no indexed files", results are empty when they shouldn't be, or the basemind serve MCP server seems dead.

How to use

Invoke /bm-doctor (optional free-text detail, e.g. /bm-doctor tools return no indexed files). It runs the checks below in order:

Check the index: basemind status.
Check for a lock-holding server: a basemind scan lock error names the holder (command + pid) from the workspace cache's .lock.meta.
Rebuild the index if needed: basemind scan.
Reconnect the MCP server (client-specific — this is the only way to restart it).

Notes

A stdio MCP server can't be restarted by an agent or by basemind itself; reconnecting it is the MCP client's job. The CLI stays usable throughout.

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

6d ago Changed 66873d6659bc
10d ago Changed bc1a35e19fcd
14d ago Changed · +7 lines b00a12f3eb8b
18d ago Changed bdf06ade8099
24d ago Changed c9fd51146825
1mo ago First seen · 35 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 8098d1650921

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bm-doctor is a command published in the GitHub repository Goldziher/basemind (114 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 445 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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bm-doctor

Getting it into your agent

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

What it actually says

bm-doctor — diagnose and recover basemind

When to use

How to use

Notes

See also

What this file has done since we first saw it

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